Circumnavigation Celebration FREE 9/8/22

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To celebrate the 500-year anniversary of the first circumnavigation, the Kindle edition of Magellan's Unlikely Explorers will be free on Sept. 8.

Magellan's Unlikely Explorers: Stories of the First Circumnavigation, by John Sailors.



Magellan's Unlikely Explorers tells the first circumnavigation through stories of the far-fetched individuals who joined the expedition. This was a three-year voyage that circled the globe and crossed a wide swatch of history along the way.

Among its crew were Antonio Pigafetta, the Italian scholar who passing through Spain just happened to hear about a fleet being prepared, and went on to write its history; Duarte Barbosa, who spent fifteen years in India, became fluent in the Malayalam language of Kerala, and wrote a detailed Asian travelogue; Joãozito Lopes Carvalho, a young boy who became the first native of Brazil to cross the Pacific; and Enrique of Malacca, the first person to circumnavigate the globe linguistically, and possibly altogether.